Howdy. I'm Ben.

I'm from the attractive Sebastopol, California though I've lived in a few other neat cities — London, Madrid, Lyon, Guayaquil, Guatemala City, Arlington, and currently, Los Angeles. These days I keep busy with communication design & programming languages. I also write songs, swing dance, and update my website at daring intervals.

I'm a partner at the design consultancy Barrel Strength. We work closely with growing businesses; provide online marketing, design, and development services to agencies; and build tools. Some of our recent projects are: the Sprout Plugin Suite for Craft CMS, the educational and community website Straight Up Craft, and the migration service The Great Migration.